Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall

Timothy H. Parsons
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In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire, what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment, and perhaps most important, why empires always fail.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2012
ISBN: 9780199931156
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d